Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-02-17
DAkoTAITEMs.

ty Is S6o9OOO.
The south Dakota base ball leagueis is
nearly IA fixed fact.
The artesian well at st. Lawrence
has struck Il flow.
The snow in the gulches about Dead
wood is six feet deep on the level.
Iankton wants an organized society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Coal dropped rs cents ton at Aber-
deen on the Sth inst. Cheaper freight
rates.
DR.. Mckinney, one of the first settlers
of Deadwood, recently died at Hot
Springs.
The mail agent has paid Oakes visit
and says routes will be established
right away.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
twenty-five churches in the territory,
and a good sized membership.
Baled hay was an unknown curiosity
at Sioux Fails up to the Sth inst. when
Il cargo was offered for sale there.
The Sioux Falls cracker factory ex-
poets to turn out Il carload of baked
stuff every day us soon as it gets under
way.
y farmer from Falsebottom has sold
in Deadwood 450 sacks of onions from
one acre and a quarter, and they
brought him $1,000.
4ankton college has class of thir-
teen young ladies who exercise daily
with dumb bells and other muscle-pro-
ducing implements.
Two grand larceny victims from
Yankton, named John Sharp and Wm.
Brock, were discharged from the Sioux
Falls penitentiary on the 8th.
Deadwood is reported to be expert
encing some trouble with Whitewood
creek. the waters of which stream are
encroaching on such streets us they can
reach.
Nio''N"e'iin nave DceL commenced
against vendors of liquors in Howard.
The first case resulted in conviction.
The village has an ordinance prohibit
ing the sale of intoxicants.
Among the students at Yankton
college are three societies-two of
young gentlemen and one OF Young
ladieS-and each of these societies gives
a public exhibition once ii year.
AN inhuman wretch living near Went
worth starved his wife to death few
days ago. Neighbors would furnish
eatables for her but he would not let
her eat it and would eat it himself.
a Bismarck correspondent of the
Fargo Argus says the past week has
been Il hard one on coal In one day
twelve tons were burned at the capitol,
while the Sheridan house got away
with seven tons.
Editor Buchanan. Of the Sioux Falls
Leader, has decided to accept the posi-
tion OF clerk of the committee on bank
ing, and is now at Bismarck. discharg-
ing his duties. His son will manage
the paper in his absence.
Gene Cutting, who was injured on a
Pierre toboggan slide, was laid up for a
month. The leg he broke some wears
ago at 1ankton fire was badly dam
aged. but not broken again. as reported
| Mr.. Cutting is able to hobble about,
but has not recovered full use of him.
self.
A Young woman who has been hold.
ing down Il claim near Bare Butte
passed forty-eight hours in bed in her
shack during the recent storm. She
was out of firewood and went to bed Z
keep warm. A neighSor discovered
her and removed her to Il place of com.
fort. Her limbs were frostbitten, hu,
not badly.
The Jail at Deadwood contains an in
sane patient named Thomas, waiting
transportation to the \ Yanktun aSylum
At times he is violently demonstrativt
and threatens to cut the throat o
Jenitor Jackson, but compromises up
on receiving a solemn promise from tn,
janitor to attend exclusively to his OWL
affairs and family.
The report that Guy G. Weed, late o
Sioux Fails had secured !. large an,
profitable contract on the Canadian
Pacific railroad is not reliable. He ha
been engaged at work on that road OF
Il salary, but owing to the failure of tn
contractors lost all his wages Guy ha,
to leave Sioux Falls without taxing hi
trunk.
In Il well four miles south of Ell
Point, ut Il depth of sixteen feet Il cot
tonwood log three feet in diameter WI.
found and chopped through. Th
wood was SO dry that it would bur-
readily, being imbe,lded in sand Z
grape vine three inches thick and plul
brush We're found at the same deptt
Standing around the well, within twelv
feet, are sev eral large elm trees tina
good judges say are from 10 to 10
Years old.
Mr.. Wol2muth, of Lawrence count,
! went into Spearlish two or three yeal
ago Il poor man, having been oYertake
by misfortunes. Hepurcilased theonl
Touring mill there on credit, succeede
in obtaining a large stock of whea
commenced making flour and put h
prices up to some $40 Il barrel. II
succeeded, and to-day has the reput;
tion of being one of the wealthie:
men IN the house, having. it is sal
!. about $4,000 worth of property.
e Deadwood Pioneer: A detail of IL
!. Seventh calvary came up from Fo
y Mead yesterday with IA load of me-
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